As Rumi wrote: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
But, honestly, and no offence meant to Rumi, I think it’s human to feel irritated by this process. Let’s be real. It’s not fun being sanded, shaped and polished. It’s not fun facing all our fears and pain and parts of us we don’t yet know how to meet with love.
This energy coming in is a kick-ass transformative energy, hell bent on awakening us.
What is its goal?
To shake us out of our stupor. Out of the dream.
Learning to (humbly) listen to your inner guidance is your best protection in world changing moments like this.
I want. I want. I want…. but I’m not or I don’t have.
Of course it’s exciting to lean into these desires, and these are all perfectly good things to want and create. The problem isn’t the wanting. It’s the emotional anchor underneath the wanting. We wanna look at that.
Being deliberate is a tool that helps us access the higher parts of ourselves. Often we feel helpless. But we can take our power back by being deliberate about our choices in any situation.
Those shitty experiences that you’ve shoved under a tarp because they look ugly, awkward or just make you feel uncomfortable? They are the raw ingredient for your greatest experiences yet to come. Without them, it would not even be possible for you to have greater experiences.
we don’t just want a system for achieving our goals—we also need a system for choosing the right goals, which are aligned with who we ARE and what we really want (as opposed to what we think we want—because we think it will make us happy).
I have listed the following exercises in the order I feel they should be done to get the best result (because I did them in this order and got a great result). The first exercise feeds into the second and so on, so please don’t skip any.
(Part 1 of 4: A Goal Mastery System to Rule Them All)
As a writer who gets lost in the world of creating for hours at a time, not to mention the hours I spend doing meditation and emotional integration practices to strengthen my intuitive abilities, I’ve had a love-hate relationship with to-do lists and productivity management systems all my life.
Quick. I’m sure you’re annoyed about something or someone right now. Because…human. :)
So what do you think you need to feel better about yourself or your life in relation to this situation?
Now ask yourself:
And what will that give me (that I don’t have now)?
It was one of the greatest nights of my life.
One hundred people mingled together in the small room I had booked next to a large music venue.
As an introvert who has always loved helping to create a sense of community for people (but rarely do because I truly border on reclusive), knowing that I had brought all these people together and that they were now connecting, talking and laughing thrilled me. But the best part? They had all come to listen to me read from my newly launched book Help Me, Asia: Five Countries, One Mission, Learn How to Be Happy–the writing of which had been a trying, 10-year labour of love.
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